Upcoming Events
STRUTTER'S ROOM Master Camp 2022
TRAINING INTENSIVE
JUNETEENTH PERFORMANCES
BATTLES & MORE!
BOOGALOO, ROBOTTIN, & STRUTTIN’ EDITION
WITH SPECIAL GUEST OG TEACHERS
SAVE THE DATE 6/13-6/19
1 FULL WEEK LEADING TO JUNETEENTH, JUNE 13-19
Past Events
STRUTTER'S ROOM DANCE WORKSHOP
STRUTTER’S ROOM DANCE WORKSHOP
Featuring Chekkitout University Educational Course
Livestream Physical Workshop Taught By:
Lonnie “The Fillmore Kid” Green
February 20th
3PM – 5PM PST
ZOOM ID: 889 4567 7837
Email: HipHopCongressInc@gmail.com for more info
THE STRUTTER'S ROOM - LONNIE GREEN'S BIRTHDAY EDITION
A SAN FRANCISCO SAGITTARIUS PARTYA BLOCK PARTY!
SATURDAY, December 11
3 PM – 10 PM
Location: Fillmore & Turk Mini Park, SF
Special Guest Performances
Food & Fun For All!
STRUTTIN' CLASSES - TEXAS
With Master Teacher D.N.A.D.N.A. master teacher of 40 years
A group member of (The Mechanical Magicians) based out of San Francisco, bay area
Nov. 12-13
Friday – Saturday
7PM – 8PM
COUNTDOWN STUDIO
9023 Huebner Rd
STE 103
San Antonio, TX 78240
Please arrive 15 mins early, Thank You!
D.N.A. will be demonstrating how to connect other styles to strutting such as, the robot, wave, 3D, tick and the Fillmore. You don’t want to miss this
LONNIE GREEN presents... ** The Strutter’s Room Experience **
"The Inner City Black Dance Culture"Date: Thursday September 16, 2021
THE STRUTTER'S ROOM MASTER CAMP
JUNETEENTH WEEK!JOIN US IN PERSON OR ONLINE!
CARLOS A. LEVEXIER LIVEWORK
642 1ST STREET, RODEO,CA, 94572
In Person: $350/Week, $50/Day
Virtual: (HowLiveTV) $150/Week, $25/Day
MONDAY
6.14.2021 (7 pm – 11 pm)
FILM (Class)
TUESDAY
6.15.2021 (7 pm – 11 pm)
STRUTTIN MATH(Class)
WEDNESDAY
6.16.2021 (7 pm – 11 pm)
LANGUAGE ARTS(Class)
THURSDAY
6.17.2021 (7 pm – 11 pm)
CULTURAL DANCE HISTORY(Class)
FRIDAY
6.18.2021 (7 pm – 11 pm)
STRUTTIN SCIENCE(Class)
SATURDAY
6.19.2021 (9pm – 2am)
STRUTTER’S ROOM CONCERT FEATURING 2021 INTERNATIONAL EXTREME POPPING BATTLE & TRIBUTE TO THE JACKSON 5 1981 LIVE ALBUM
SUNDAY
6.20.2021 (AFTER PARTY)
THE STRUTTER’S ROOM & BRS ART’S ALLIANCE CELEBRATION FEATURING “THANK YOU TO HIP HOP”
Aaron A-1 Benjamin Bachelor Party
A San Francisco Black Inner City Dance IconTart Productions Presents
THE STRUTTER’S ROOM
BACHELOR PARTY
OF THE LEGENDARY
AARON A-1 BENJAMIN
Hosted by DJ/MC Lonnie Green | Special Guest Performances
Sponsored by Carlos A. Levexier, Live/Work Space
642 1st St, Rodeo, CA
$20 Donation | 21+
Thestruttersroom.com
Call: 415-240-7486
Therea Lewis and Aaron Benjamin Wedding
See You Online!TOGETHER WITH THEIR FAMILIES
THERESA LEWIS AND AARON BENJAMIN
INVITE YOU TO THEIR WEDDING CELEBRATION!
<BR>
MAY 29, 2021
STARTS AT 3PM PST
LIVESTREAM FROM ZOOM
ZOOM ID: 785 468 4914
CHEKKITOUT UNIVERSITY PODCAST EP. 4
THE STRUTTER'S ROOM PODCAST
HOSTED BY CULTURAL DANCE ICON
LONNIE “POPTART” GREEN
WITH CO-HOST RAHMAN JAMAL
MAY 21, 2021
7-9 PM PST
MONTHLY PODCAST
Join the Stream!
A BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION
THE STRUTTER'S ROOM PODCAST
A SAN FRANCISCO STRUTTIN CELEBRATION
FEB. 19, 20, 21
WITH A-LIST STRUTTIN DANCE GROUP REPRESENTATIVES
3-D KID – BAM BAM, INC.
WAYNE JACKSON – GRANNY & THE ROBOTROIDS, INC.
BEN JAMES – LIVE, INC.
ARMOND MACKEY – MONTE & THE MECHANICAL MIDGETS
MARK ELLIOT – CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FUNKIEST KIND
LIL DAVE/LATRICE – DIABOLICAL SOLDIERS/ALIENS
CARLOS LEVEXIER & CLEO – MIGHT MECHANICS
TROY REAGAN – ELECTROIDS
AARON BENJAMIN (A-1) – DEMONS OF THE MIND
THE STRUTTER'S ROOM MASTER CAMP 2021
AFRICAN AMERICAN DANCE, ART, & CULTUREThe Strutter’s Room Master Camp 2021
CHEKKITOUT UNIVERSITY
A LIVESTREAM DIALOUGETHE STRUTTER’S ROOM
Directed by Lonnie Green
THE STRUTTER'S ROOM BIRTHDAY EDITION
EXTREME 1 VS 1 POPPING BATTLEFRIDAY DECEMBER 11
6 PM – 12 PM
FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY
-HONEST BOB
-RAHMAN JAMAAL MC
-DEMONS OF THE MIND & OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS
In Memory of "Reo Robot" Moore
Oakland Boogaloo Legends of the BayBENJAMIN JAMES BIRTHDAY BASH
SUNDAY AUGUST 23RDFounder of Live Inc
Legendary B.R.S. Group of San Francisco
Party in Person
642 1st Street
Rodeo, CA
12pm-7pm | Wear a Mask
LIVE AT THE DRAGON
BAY AREA ARTS THEATRE
VIRTUAL EDITION
JULY 26, 2020
8PM – 10PM
HOSTED BY RAHMAN JAMAAL
WITH DJ LRS
http://twitch.tv/dragontheatre
Donations based Venmo @DragonTheatre
Brought to you By:
HIP HOP CONGRESS
COMMUNITY STREET JAM
DRAGON THEATRE
RICARDO ARCHILA
IVY CHEN
CHAZ CABONCE
Celebrating the Life of The Legendary Joseph Harry Berry
July 11, 2020
1 PM - 5 PM Saturday
642 1st Street, Rodeo, CA
Sunrise 5.31.1965 – Sunset 6.23.2020
Come Celebrate the Life of The Legendary Joseph Harry Berry with Pastor Walker of True Hope
Church of God in Christ
Special Guest Speakers
Troy Reagan
Lonnie Green
Martin Cox
Aaron Benjamin
Josiah Berry
Herm Lewis
COLORS OF THE DAY:
PURPLE
SILVER
WHITE
BLACK
PROGRAM OF THE DAY
1:00 – 2:30 All viewing
2:30 – 3:30 Special Guest Speakers
3:30 – 3:45 Family & Friend Speakers
3:45 4:00 Pastor Walker (True Hope SF)
4:00 – 5:00 Food by Thereso & Ute
Live Stream! The Strutter's Room Online 2020 Dance Master Camp
June 27, 2020
12PM-8PM PST via HowLive.TV
$25 Camp Registration
$20 EXTREME POPPING BATTLE
$45 FOR BOTH
ATTENTION!
Log into the stream with your PayPal email address!
EXTREME POPPING BATTLE
Send in your best video under 1 minutes to funkinfocusonline@gmail.com
Click the button below to choose your song!
CHOOSE YOUR SONG!
SCHEDULE
12 - 1 PM
Workshop #1: Steen Koerner, Copenhagen
(Slo Mo, Fix Point, Mechanical Movement, Geometrical Systems)
1 - 2:30 PM
Panel of Twelve - EXTREME POPPING BATTLE
Special Guest Performances: Damon Frost, Prince Ali, Jon Boogz, Steen
2:30 - 2:45 PM
DJ Performance: Urban Artistry: DJ Russ, Washington D.C.
2:45 - 3:45 PM
Workshop #2: Hit Master Fish
(Popping, Ticking, Funky Robot, Hip Hop, Old School Funk)
3:45 - 4 PM
DJ Performance: Ronell Ellis
Close Encounters of the Funkiest Kind, SF, CA
4 - 5 PM
Workshop #3: Marcus Lindsey a.k.a. DNA
(Dancing in Automation, Robot, Strutting)
5 - 5:30 PM
Mechanical Magicians Graduation Ceremony
Special Performances by: ChineseRobot, Rashaad, Future, Agatron, Monstapop
5:30 - 7 PM
BRS Arts Alliance
7-8 PM
Workshop #4: Lonie "The Fillmore Kid a.k.a. PopTart" Green
The Strutter's Room Takeover
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XTREME POPPING ONLINE BATTLE
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San Francisco invites you to experience the undocumented inner-city Black dance culture of 1970s Fillmore Strutting.
Raised in Hunter's Point at the dawn of the Black Power movement in the San Francisco Bay Area, Lonnie Green was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the Fillmore District in 1967 and would become the beneficiary of the Hunter’s Point/Bayview Free Breakfast Program, where he learned firsthand at a young age what it meant to be Black and proud.
It was soon discovered that his upbringing in a family of musicians made him a powerful "mover" to the music of his generation. Influenced by the legacies of the civil rights leaders of his time, “Lil Lonnie” grew up with the dream of becoming a social revolutionary himself… however, he would be handicapped with dyslexia, a learning disability that prevented him from being able to read, write or spell.
This inevitably caused him to rely on different aspects of language in order to become the influential leader for his people that he envisioned.
In 1978, an eleven year-old Lonnie Green moved back to the Fillmore District, where he was first exposed to the culture of “Fillmore Strutting” by his cousin who went by the name “3D Kid” in a group called Bam Bam & Company.
Strutting is a derivative of the 1960’s Boogaloo style of dance popular in Oakland which combined synchronized fluid & robotic movements and poses in group routines set to funk music.
Strutting evolved out of San Francisco residents creating group routines to 1970’s funk/soul/electro records played on 33 and 45 speed.
After experiencing a loss at his first talent show, Lonnie was determined that he would never let that happen again, so when he wasn’t at school he was developing techniques in his bedroom until he could move sharp enough to take on anyone that dared to challenge him.
His attitude and personality gained him notoriety and the streets eventually embraced him after his second dance group, The Magicians, defeated A-list group member Monte of Monte & the Mechanical Midgets and more.
This win caught the eye of Deborah Johnson, founder of Granny & Robotroid, Inc., a Robot, Boogaloo and Strutting group founded in 1975 that won The Gong Show in 1977.
“Granny” took Lonnie under her wing and began to share the closely guarded "stepping" secrets of Granny & Robotroid’s style, which is when Lonnie asked if he could adopt the street name “Fillmore Kid” from one of the most revered shot-callers in the neighborhood.
Deborah told Lonnie that she saw him alone as one to be counted upon to preserve Strutting culture for future generations: a charge he personally took to heart at the early age of 12.
From that point, his career took off and he was trained by members of each of San Francisco’s legendary groups from Live, Inc. and Close Encounters of the Funkiest Kind to Diabolical Soldiers and Demons of the Mind who, along with his own group P-T 3000, would cement his legacy as one of the baddest Strutters the Fillmore District had ever seen.
To this day, Lonnie Green is one of the only SF Strutters to have consistently remained both active and relevant in the world of dance for the last 40 years.
When Hip Hop hit the West Coast in the early 1980’s, Lonnie Green evolved into “PopTart”, a professional choreographer and Hip Hop dancer who was also began serving as cultural ambassador for San Francisco when he became the first dancer to leave Fillmore and share Strutting culture internationally, first in Canada and later throughout Europe and Asia.
Lonnie Green successfully adapted to the music industry’s trends and also set the tone for professional dancers in the Hip Hop music industry by keeping his native Strutting roots unchanged from the teachings of his elders.
His work has always been his way of giving back to the city and culture that raised him.“Hip Hop” has since become a term universally associated with the emergence of urban creative expression in the 1970’s, a narrative that is now studied in colleges and universities around the world.
Most scholars recognize Hip Hop as a New York narrative. Far-less understood in academia and industry yet equally relevant is the under-written story of the Fillmore, the largest example of failed urban renewal on the West Coast.
Just like the South Bronx, this also created inner-city Black dance cultural expressions that would inform and influence entire generations across the globe.The regional "funk styles" of B-R-S from the San Francisco Bay Area represent the communities that developed on the West Coast years before Hip Hop hit national media.
BRS dancers can be officially traced as far back as 1967 and were entirely left alone by the mainstream media and film industries in the 1980's because of the uncompromising nature of the dance’s strong cultural ties to the Black Power movement of the 1960's.As films like "Breakin" and "Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo" took the mainstream by storm, the uninformed public began calling the BRS styles "Hip Hop dance" and its origin story was eclipsed by Hollywood adopting the urban narrative of the South Bronx, which left out the historical facts of the Bay Area's inner-city Black dance culture that had already influenced an entire generation of Hip Hop dancers, poppers, and Pop stars.
For an entire week leading up to the SF Juneteenth Parade & Festival, one of the Fillmore's most beloved dance icons and public figure, co-founder of BRS Arts Alliance, CEO of Tart Productions and founder of The Strutter's Room, international pioneer and A-list Strutter Lonnie "The Fillmore Kid" Green a.k.a. PopTart, hosts The 2020 Annual International Strutter's Room Master Camp for dancers ever year all over the world looking to absorb this information directly from the source - in the very community that pioneered the 1970's style of dance that can only be called one thing: Strutting.
Instagram Live Stream Workshops: Let's Support Each Other
June 7, 2020 10 AMINSTAGRAM LIVE STREAM WORKSHOPS
You can donate by paypal: artofpopping@gmail.com
The 2020 Annual International Strutters Room Master Camp!
June 2020 Master Camp Early Bird Special!
Raised in Hunter's Point at the dawn of the Black Power movement in the San Francisco Bay Area, Lonnie Green was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the Fillmore District in 1967 and would become the beneficiary of the Hunter’s Point/Bayview Free Breakfast Program, where he learned firsthand at a young age what it meant to be Black and proud. It was soon discovered that his upbringing in a family of musicians made him a powerful "mover" to the music of his generation. Influenced by the legacies of the civil rights leaders of his time, “Lil Lonnie” grew up with the dream of becoming a social revolutionary himself… however, he would be handicapped with dyslexia, a learning disability that prevented him from being able to read, write or spell. This inevitably caused him to rely on different aspects of language in order to become the influential leader for his people that he envisioned.
In 1978, an eleven year-old Lonnie Green moved back to the Fillmore District, where he was first exposed to the culture of “Fillmore Strutting” by his cousin who went by the name “3D Kid” in a group called Bam Bam & Company. Strutting is a derivative of the 1960’s Boogaloo style of dance popular in Oakland which combined synchronized fluid & robotic movements and poses in group routines set to funk music. Strutting evolved out of San Francisco residents creating group routines to 1970’s funk/soul/electro records played on 33 and 45 speed. After experiencing a loss at his first talent show, Lonnie was determined that he would never let that happen again, so when he wasn’t at school he was developing techniques in his bedroom until he could move sharp enough to take on anyone that dared to challenge him. His attitude and personality gained him notoriety and the streets eventually embraced him after his second dance group, The Magicians, defeated A-list group member Monte of Monte & the Mechanical Midgets and more.
This win caught the eye of Deborah Johnson, founder of Granny & Robotroid, Inc., a Robot, Boogaloo and Strutting group founded in 1975 that won The Gong Show in 1977. “Granny” took Lonnie under her wing and began to share the closely guarded "stepping" secrets of Granny & Robotroid’s style, which is when Lonnie asked if he could adopt the street name “Fillmore Kid” from one of the most revered shot-callers in the neighborhood. Deborah told Lonnie that she saw him alone as one to be counted upon to preserve Strutting culture for future generations: a charge he personally took to heart at the early age of 12. From that point, his career took off and he was trained by members of each of San Francisco’s legendary groups from Live, Inc. and Close Encounters of the Funkiest Kind to Diabolical Soldiers and Demons of the Mind who, along with his own group P-T 3000, would cement his legacy as one of the baddest Strutters the Fillmore District had ever seen. To this day, Lonnie Green is one of the only SF Strutters to have consistently remained both active and relevant in the world of dance for the last 40 years.
When Hip Hop hit the West Coast in the early 1980’s, Lonnie Green evolved into “PopTart”, a professional choreographer and Hip Hop dancer who was also began serving as cultural ambassador for San Francisco when he became the first dancer to leave Fillmore and share Strutting culture internationally, first in Canada and later throughout Europe and Asia. Lonnie Green successfully adapted to the music industry’s trends and also set the tone for professional dancers in the Hip Hop music industry by keeping his native Strutting roots unchanged from the teachings of his elders. His work has always been his way of giving back to the city and culture that raised him.
“Hip Hop” has since become a term universally associated with the emergence of urban creative expression in the 1970’s, a narrative that is now studied in colleges and universities around the world. Most scholars recognize Hip Hop as a New York narrative. Far-less understood in academia and industry yet equally relevant is the under-written story of the Fillmore, the largest example of failed urban renewal on the West Coast. Just like the South Bronx, this also created inner-city Black dance cultural expressions that would inform and influence entire generations across the globe.
The regional "funk styles" of B-R-S from the San Francisco Bay Area represent the communities that developed on the West Coast years before Hip Hop hit national media. BRS dancers can be officially traced as far back as 1967 and were entirely left alone by the mainstream media and film industries in the 1980's because of the uncompromising nature of the dance’s strong cultural ties to the Black Power movement of the 1960's.
As films like "Breakin" and "Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo" took the mainstream by storm, the uninformed public began calling the BRS styles "Hip Hop dance" and its origin story was eclipsed by Hollywood adopting the urban narrative of the South Bronx, which left out the historical facts of the Bay Area's inner-city Black dance culture that had already influenced an entire generation of Hip Hop dancers, poppers, and Pop stars.
For an entire week leading up to the SF Juneteenth Parade & Festival, one of the Fillmore's most beloved dance icons and public figure, co-founder of BRS Arts Alliance, CEO of Tart Productions and founder of The Strutter's Room, international pioneer and A-list Strutter Lonnie "The Fillmore Kid" Green a.k.a. PopTart, hosts The 2020 Annual International Strutter's Room Master Camp for dancers ever year all over the world looking to absorb this information directly from the source - in the very community that pioneered the 1970's style of dance that can only be called one thing: Strutting.
Ben James Birthday Bash!
Join us as we celebrate Ben James Birthday! (Founder of Live Inc 1975)
A True Bay Area Dance Icon! Saturday August 24, 20199PM - 12AM
Emporium SF616 Divisadero St, San Francisco, CA 94117
Black Suit Jacket Event!
Engine Shit 4.0 Popping 1 on 1
Additional information coming soon!The 2019 Annual International Strutter's Room Master Camp
San Francisco invites you to experience the undocumented inner-city Black dance culture of 1970s Fillmore Strutting.
2020 Master Camp Price: $700
2019 Master Camp Price: $350
2019 Master Camp Early Bird Special (Before June 1st): $175
2019 AAACC Student Special (Reserved through AAACC): $75
Before it was called "Popping" and before it was considered "Pop", the inner-cities of Oakland, Richmond and San Francisco were home to a regional street culture with unique dance expressions known as Boogaloo, Robottin and Struttin. With the competitive nature emerging out of the 1960's and dominating Bay Area dance scene throughout the 1970's, these "BRS" funk styles were positive outlets of urban expression that served as an alternative to street activity, much like the East Coast equivalent of breakdancing.
San Francisco's Fillmore Strutting tradition can be documented as far back as 1975, with groups such as Granny & the Robotroids, Live Incorporated, Monty and the Mechanical Midgets, and Close Encounters of the Funkiest Kind. Similar to Boogaloo & Robottin, Strutting culture was never adequately explored by mainstream media because its community ties would not easily compromise its traditional values to align with corporate interests. The BRS story of origin would soon be overshadowed in the 1980's by the emerging "Hip Hop" urban narrative of street dance out of New York, leaving the untold history of the Bay Area inner-city Black dance expression that came to influence an entire generation of Hip Hop dancers and "poppers" largely unknown to the general public.
For the entire week of leading up to the Juneteenth Festival, one of the Fillmore's most beloved public figures, co-founder of BRS Arts Alliance and founder of The Strutter's Room, international Hip Hop dance icon and A-list Strutter Lonnie "The Fillmore Kid" Green a.k.a. PopTart, opens the doors to the African American Art & Culture Complex with the 2019 Annual International Strutter's Room Master Camp for dancers all over the world who are looking to get their information directly from the source - the SF community that pioneered the 1970's style of dance that can only be called one thing: Strutting.
Grown Folks Back to the 70's & 80's Party
CREATURE MAN & BENZO PRESENTS:
Grown Folks Back to the 70's & 80's Party
Friday March 29th
Doors open at 8pm
9pm to 2am
Featuring DIS-JOCKEY
DR. FUNK
$15 in advance
$20 at the door
1st place $250 Soultrain Dance Contest
@FILLMORE HERITAGE CENTER
1330 FILLMORE ST
21+ 70'S & 80'S Formal Attire Required
www.FillmoreHeritageCenter.org
For Tickets: www.eventbrite.com

Cypher Culture Conference
With great honor & respect, we are extremely excited to present the legendary, an OG and pioneer of San Francisco Strutting:
Lonnie “Pop Tart” Green
Pop Tart will be teaching a 3 hour Strutter’s Room Camp during the conference; Friday, April 26th. 2pm - 5pm at New Expressive Works. There he will select 4 dancers to join him for a special performance during The Book of Styles competition the next day! Don’t miss that opportunity!
He will also be doing a Q&A discussion panel, which will be recorded live and released on the Thread Count Podcast platform. Come pick the OG’s brain!
Party | Preserve | Educate

The Strutter's Room
A Black History Month Cultural Festival Experience
February 23, 2019
10AM The Strutters Room Film
11AM B-R-S Film
12PM P-T 3000 Film
1PM Open Dance Cyper
2PM BRS Dance Workshop
4pm Extreme Popping Dance Battle
7pm Strutter's Room Funk Concert
All Day Access Pre-Sale Pass $25
The Fillmore Heritage Center
1330 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA, 94115
Fillmore Heritage Center
Struttin Dance Workshop by Lonnie Green AKA The Fillmore Kid
40 Year International Iconic Master Teacher From the Inner City Black Dance Culture
January 19th 2019 1pm
Meet & Greet
Press Hearing
Photos & Signing
All Styles Cypher
More Info: 415.255.7745